Tesoro Cibola :tesoro::usaflag: Nickels, Nickels, Nickels:detecting:

[tabman]

I went back to the ole virgin site that I've been hitting lately to see what my modded Cibola could find. All the easy stuff has been cherry picked, so I was digging all targets that had some depth to them that sounded halfway decent. I was amazed at how many deep nickels that I dug today. Seven of them and one being a 1943 War Nickel. The Cibola and Vaquero really excel at finding nickels as well as gold rings. I worked the Sharpshooter coil slow and easy. I had the threshold set at a slight hum, the GB a little to the negative, full sensitivity and the discrimination set to just a tad below where a foil cap discriminates out. When I get a faint broken audio signal and flip over to the all metal mode and the audio remains around the same volume, I dig. If audio gets louder I'm not so inclined to dig. It's hard to explain, but if you keep a mental note of how the all metal audio sounds vs the discriminate mode on a bunch a different targets you'll be better able to tell what is junk or not. I only found a couple of wheat pennies today (1951, 1942). That makes around 75 of them that I've found at this site. My first silver today was a 1964 Rosie. Then I found a 1944 Mercury Dime. Finally one of those 7 nickels turned out to be a War Nickel. That makes 3 silvers in a couple of hours hunting. I told myself if I get one more I'm calling it a day. I hunted for about another hour and didn't find anything worth much except for a Memphis Rail Token. Finally, I got a soft whisper and I when I flipped over to the all metal mode the audio remained soft. I dug down nearly 9 inches and found a silver band that was stamp 'sterling'. I rescanned the hole again and got the same soft audio again. I finally dug around and found the rest of the ring. OK that's four silvers, I'm headed home.

tabman

 

[ken ward]

Do you have as much fun as I do digging trash? You even find nice coins sometimes..... KEN

 

[tabman]

Do you have as much fun as I do digging trash? You even find nice coins sometimes..... KEN

Yeah, I want to know what's there. You'll miss some good stuff that's masked if you don't dig those iffy signals and use too much discrimination.

'High toning' is fun every once in awhile, but you'll pass over a lot of good stuff.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab I know what you are saying about the threshold all metal , it tells you a lot of info , I miss that on the Compadre

 

[mudpuppy]

Wow! You are really punching deep there now buddy! If that place holds gold, it will be YOURS!
Mud

 

[tabman]

Wow! You are really punching deep there now buddy! If that place holds gold, it will be YOURS!
Mud

Mud, I'd bet money that there are some gold rings at this site. I've mostly been cherry picking, but I'm starting my get it all grid searches with my Tesoro detectors.

There has been some people with money that has walked this area and probably did a little drinking as well. Most of my best finds have been at the base of the hill.

tabman

 

[kansa54]

Congratulations Tabman on another great hunt.
The nine inch deep silver must have been a very weak signal with that small of a coil. When you get a weak signal do you swing from a different angle to see if you still hear it, or do you just dig weak signals from one direction. Hope my question makes sense. Also, once you have a weak signal, do you super tune your detector to get a better sound?

 

[tabman]

Congratulations Tabman on another great hunt.
The nine inch deep silver must have been a very weak signal with that small of a coil. When you get a weak signal do you swing from a different angle to see if you still hear it, or do you just dig weak signals from one direction. Hope my question makes sense. Also, once you have a weak signal, do you super tune your detector to get a better sound?

Thanks.

The deep targets are just whispers with the way that I have the detector set up. Using a very slight audible threshold allows me to tell if a target is deep or not.

I know what you're talking about. It depends on how I feel and where I'm detecting.

But mostly I'm on most any signal like a duck on a June Bug that just hit the water if the target sounds deep.

On a side note, most of the silver war nickels come in the beaver tail pull tab range, not the nickel range. That's why a lot of detectors with VDI screens miss them.

tabman

 

[Rainyday101]

Great hunt Tabman! I love digging those deep whispers also. When I first got the Tejon I was all over the deep whispers. The problem is so of them are just toooo deep. Interesting info on the conductivity of the silver war nickels. This tells me that even hunted out parks probably still have silver war nickels! It is mighty nice of them guys with a VDI to leave them there for us!

 

[Wolfdog]

great finds tab,you make it sound so easy.I hope to get half as good with the cibola as you are.thanks for sharing.
Wolf